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\nSingapore, Sep 29 (PTI) A 23-year-old Indian national has been jailed for 25 days after pleading guilty to two charges under the Official Secrets Act for illegally subletting a Singapore public housing estate residential unit to multiple tenants and later passing on alerts to the occupants prior to the inspection raids to ensure they don’t get caught, a media report said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
A third charge was taken into consideration against Damandeep Singh, who had managed to evade detection this way at least twice before his own tenancy was terminated, The Straits Times reported.<\/p>\n
In 2017, Singh met Housing and Development Board (HDB) enforcement officer Kalayarasan Karuppaya, 55, while the officer was conducting an inspection on a unit that Singh was living in.<\/p>\n
Later, they became friends and would occasionally contact each other over the phone.<\/p>\n
Singh later moved to another unit, which he illegally sublet to others.<\/p>\n
Some 12 or 13 people ended up living in the unit, against the set rule for the maximum number of occupants in a residential unit, and about 200 Singaporean dollars was collected monthly from each of the illegal subtenants.<\/p>\n
The HDB, as managers of the housing estate, received complaints from members of the public about suspected overcrowding and noise at the unit.<\/p>\n
It also received similar information from the police which had raided the unit on complaints from neighbours.<\/p>\n
But Singh received an alert from his friend Kalayarasan about surprise checks of the unit planned by HDB for May 8, 2019, and September 10, 2019.<\/p>\n
Singh told the illegal subtenants to quickly move out prior to the inspections, which then found no observable signs of overcrowding or illegal subletting, the report said.<\/p>\n
But after HDB enforcement officers informed the unit’s owner about the information from police, Singh’s tenancy was terminated and the unit was vacated the same month, September 2019.<\/p>\n
The offences came to light after the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau received information in January last year about Kalayarasan’s tip-offs to Singh.<\/p>\n
The HDB officer was also jailed for 25 days last month for offences under the OSA.<\/p>\n
For each OSA charge of wrongful communication of information, Singh could have been jailed for up to two years and fined 2,000 Singaporean dollars.<\/p>\n
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